Broken Or Not

Last couple of days work has almost turned into a four letter word that shouldn't said be in polite company, ever thing's OK but there too much talking about nothing. We are almost to the stage where we have a meeting to arrange another meeting and things seems to get said over and over again and it's doing my head in a bit. Sorry if that sounds a bit negative but I'm not kidding people keep repeating the obvious all the time it probably wouldn't be so bad if it was only mentioned once but it gets repeated. Sometimes I think i must come from a different planet, maybe it's just that i was brought up in a different work environment. This hasn't just started it's been going on for a long time now meetings for the sake of meetings repeating the obvious all the time, just seems to have got to me over the last couple of days and I felt like venting a bit so there you go. Things could be worse at least the pays good well it's not bad anyway, enough of this got to get to bed early have a meeting first thing tomorrow to arrange the afternoons meeting, so got to plow on with the blog.
Changing the subject and going back to my driving theme on the way to and from work i cross a junction where sometimes the lights or should i say arrows are all green, that is the left arrow is green straight ahead is green and the right turn all green at the same time. No problem you would think but when all the arrows are green there's also a red light on, what the ........ ! what's that all about, must mean something surly
Well I've been meaning to ask about this for a while now and the other night by chance i was taking a couple of Japanese guys back to Utsunomiy, so i asked them about it good job they could speak English ehh.
They both had no idea what the hell i was talking about and must have though i was nuts even said very politely that maybe the light was broken or i was seeing things. What they were really thinking was that i had lost it after all there's no traffic lights in Japan that didn't make sense. I even showed them the traffic light when we passed it, damm only one green light on just my luck, needless to say they really though I'd lost it then but humored me anyway.
Next day on the way back home success the three arrows were green and it had a red light on, needless to say they had never seen it before and still thought it was broke but didn't think i was quite as nuts. Ahh well at least i tried to get to the bottom of it I'm taking them home again tomorrow so maybe well see it again. Want to get i photo of the lights but will feel a bit of a dipstick if i pull up at the side of the road to take photos of traffic lights, get a life for Christs sake Steve i can here you saying.
Changing the subject as there is only so much you can write about traffic lights, economy is going down the tubes over here as well, people are getting lid off right left and center, part of the project I'm working on has been moth balled till things pick up, won't affect me or our bit of things but will effect some of the contractors on site sucks for them a bit.